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[edit] Things to expand/add

We should add more info on:

• bot speed and timers
• more specifics on getting the bot approved
• pages for a bot to be disabled (ie if User:Bot/disableme contains "end" then stop editing)
• checking for things such as edit conflicts, being blocked, non-existant pages
• Different modules other than bot frameworks, like http clients, xml parsers, etc...

GeorgeMoney (talk) 03:11, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

The article is still very very new so there is loads of stuff like the above yet to add. i am going to be working to expand the article further today - PocklingtonDan 09:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] stuff

I know this idea might be a litte over-the-top and pointless, so feel free to say how stupid doing this would be, etc... but does anyone think we should add syntax highlighting to the example code using http://tools.devshed.com/webmaster-tools/syntax-highlighting/ ? GeorgeMoney (talk) 21:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

No, I think that is an excellent idea. I think perhaps we should try and standardise the code at some point in the future so that each code chunk produces exactly the same output, to give a good example of how each language achieves the same output. We don't have to do this right now though, there's other areas that need expanding first. - PocklingtonDan 08:17, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Process

I think it goes 1. Do something 2. Do it several times 3. Get fed up 4. Think about automating it 5. Realise you can 6. Try - fail - try 7. Suceed! (with lots of manual testing) 8. Ask permission 9. Get permission to test 10. Test 11. Get permission to run 12. Run 13. Laurels and brickbats.

Rich Farmbrough, 21:43 12 December 2006 (GMT).